CHAPTER XLI.

 

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

 

§1492. This Code shall take effect and become the law of the land, on the first day of August, A.D. 1859; but that there may be no failure of justice, or embarrassment to His Majesty’s Govern­ment, from any change, all officers of this Kingdom, at the time this Code shall take effect, shall have, bold, and continue to exer­cise all the powers granted to them, as at present, until other per­sons shall be appointed in their stead, or until other necessary changes shall be made.

 

§1493. If at any time a radical and irreconcilable difference shall be found to exist between the English and Hawaiian ver­sions of any part of this Code, the English version shall be held binding.

 

FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES WHERE THE ENGLISH AND HAWAIIAN VERSIONS DO NOT AGREE.

 

Whenever there shall be found to exist any radical and irrecon­cilable difference between the English and Hawaiian version of any of the laws of the Kingdom, which have been, or may here­after be enacted, the English version shall be held binding.

 

§1494. All official and departmental fees received under the provisions of this Code, shall be accounted for and paid over into the public treasury, except fees designated and intended to be ap­plied in compensation of the officers receiving the same. And no public officer in receipt of a salary for his services, shall receive any other or further compensation therefor, unless specially allowed by law.

 

Approved this 17th day of May, A. D. 1859.

K AMEHAMEHA.

KAAHUMANU.

 

 

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